Grip Services

Here is how this works in practice. Grip departments in Peru run through key grips graduating out of Lima's feature, commercial, and broadcast economy — the same crew base that supports Claudia Llosa, Salvador del Solar, and inbound Netflix and HBO Max Latin-America productions booking through the capital as the regional hub. Department structure pairs the key grip with a best boy grip handling logistics, a dolly grip for camera-support moves, and a tiered crew of company and rigging grips scaled to production size.

Here is the short of it. Gear packages route through RentCam Perú, Filmotechnik, and partner houses with Chapman PeeWee and Hybrid dollies, Fisher 11 and 23 dollies, Matthews and Current Studio truss for overhead grids, Manfrotto and Avenger stands, Westcott and Current Studio flag and silk kits, plus specialty rigging hardware for vehicle mounts, car-to-car rigs, process trailers, and overhead set-construction work. Custom vehicle conversions are common — Lima's camera-car community has built Hilux and Land Cruiser tracking sites for Pan-American Highway sequences and for Sacred Valley access roads where standard process trailers cannot reach.

Here is the breakdown. What separates a Peruvian grip booking from a generic Latin-American crew is direct experience with the country's terrain extremes — Cusco and Sacred Valley altitude at 2,800-4,000m where rigging crews acclimatise 24-48 hours before heavy-lift work and where condensation running between altitude and lower-elevation gear stores affects setup time, Amazon basin work around Puerto Maldonado and Iquitos demanding humidity protection and dust covers on multi-week shoots, Pacific coast Lima at 70-90% humidity through the May-November garúa season, and Sechura and Ica desert work where heat and abrasive sand need dedicated gear upkeep cycles.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Our coordinators arrange tech scouts ahead of tricky rigging days, manage SUNAT ATA carnet records when foreign-owned specialty grip flies in for inbound productions, handle INC heritage-site coordination for Sacred Valley citadel work, and contract under DAFO-accredited terms with IGV 18% where the production qualifies. Safety rigging certifications are documented per-crew, and INAIL-equivalent insurance is structured to Peruvian production standards.